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Three days after Felipe Oliveira Baptista showed his second collection for LVMH-owned Kenzo last October, the brand’s founder and namesake Kenzo Takada passed away due to complications from Covid-19. They’d only met once, over lunch. “Next time, we’ll do dinner, and we’ll drink wine,” said Takada, whose appetite for life was prodigious. “When he died, I felt like I’d lost someone very dear to me,” Oliveira Baptista says. “And I hardly knew him.”
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